How to Download PSP Titles to PS Vita

PS Vita will begin making its way into gamers’ hands in just a few short days! Day one Vita owners will have many, many games to choose from, with 25 titles announced for launch on February 22nd. Actually, make that 26 — Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus is now a confirmed launch title as well.

If you’re being thorough, however, that number is off by a bit… like by 90%. Hundreds of classic PSP titles and minis will also be available to play on PS Vita on day one via the PlayStation Store. Even better, if you’ve already downloaded a compatible PSP title, you can download it directly onto your PS Vita at no extra cost (please note that some limitations do apply).

There are a couple of ways to get these PSP games onto your PS Vita:

Purchase PSP games from PS Vita’s PlayStation Store and download via WiFi directly to your system. If you’ve already purchased a game via PSN from the list below, you can redownload it from the Download List.

If you’ve already got one of these games sitting on your PS3 XMB (or have purchased from the PS3’s PlayStation Store), you can connect your PS Vita to the PS3 via the included USB cable, and transfer the game via PS Vita’s on-board Content Manager.

Here are the first 275 PSP titles ready to be downloaded onto PS Vita. Don’t worry if you don’t see your favorite title here now; more PSP titles will be made available for PS Vita play in the coming weeks. We’ll keep this list current and let you know when updates are made.

With that list I’ll be sticking to my PSP until the rest of my games are made available…. Speaking of which is Sony talking to developers/publishers about getting the UMD only titles onto PSN? I’d like to get games like Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII which I own for PSP UMD on the PS Vita. When can we expect to hear news about PSOne titles on PS Vita? Game save transfers?

So summation:
Can we expect sony to help bring Crisis Core: FF7 and other UMD Only titles to PSN for Vita?

@Reluctant-Hero. Thanks. Is it the Japanese version or is the UI in English? If it’s English then why wasn’t there a blog post about that or added in this post as one of the options for downloading stuff….

And before I get slammed by “bu-bu-bu this is just the first wave!” people need I remind you of a certain console that had only limited BC at launch? How many original XBOX titles can be played on the 360? Not even close to all of them. Also, they gave up on BC. As did Sony earlier this generation. I wait with bated breath to see if even a “second wave” of BC support hits Vita.

@NIGHTRAVEN You’re not helping the situation. Sony launched this freaking thing in Japan two months ago, almost three, and had plenty of time to iron out the kinks. What the Hell were they doing with that time? Certainly not advertising their product efficiently. Promising backwards compatibility with PSP/ PSN titles then saying: “Here’s less than 1/2 of what we have on the store that we know works! Hang tight!” A week before release I might add. How disorganized and incompetent can a company be? And this is the profitable division. No wonder Sony got downgraded to below junk bonds. Only reason I’m getting a Vita is to support the JRPG developers.

I’m surprised that most people on here can’t read the part that said: “more PSP titles will be made available for PS Vita play in the coming weeks.” The Vita isn’t out yet in the US so you should chill first. Just wait, yo.

These games DO work, and I would bet that many others missing from the list do as well. It is likely that this is just a list of the ones that have been tested, a work experience lad is probably sitting there with a Vita right now loading up the rest to see if they also work.

And for crying out loud people, the console isn’t officially out yet. See how the list looks in a few days and THEN start your complaining.

Btw, PSone games can be played through Remote Play. I’ve tested it on 11 PSone games and they all work just fine when streamed from the PS3. Hopefully native support will be ready soon. Chill out guys, it’s all good and the Vita is damn sexy, you are going to love it.

I like how people are forgiving $ony for this egregious mistake. The PSP was a single generation ago. The last Nintendo handheld to support GBA games was the DS Lite. By that time, GBA games weren’t being made, so it didn’t make sense for the 3DS to have a GBA slot. The PSP and PSPGo are the same generation. ONE GENERATION ago. This does not make it ‘OK’. And no I am not looking to ‘just complain’ – I want to ‘just play’ my games. We’re all GAMERS here. Don’t forget that.

So let’s see, not only can’t I do anything with the over sixty UMD games I have because you won’t do the Passport program over here for God knows what reason, but I also can’t do anything with my digital copies of Patchwork Heroes, Practical Quotient, The Warriors, or all that Rock Band Unplugged DLC I have. Thanks guys, you’re really convincing me that upgrading to a Vita is a good idea!

lol i bet that list is just tested games wile people are bellyaching. it would make sense for Sony to not assure all games are backwards compatible. Yeah MS made a few hundred games compatible with 360… but Sony is not MS. Lets not forget that the earlier PS3’s were compatible with just about every PS1 & 2 game.

Why aren’t Mod Nation and LittleBigPlanet PSP suppored? Oh, yeah, that’s right $ony crippled those titles with restrictive DRM so as gamers are forced to buy the vita versions…..LAME. One more reason not to buy the Vita…

I went and checked, and you can add another two games to this list of games that work:

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
Killzone Liberation.

I’ve seen a lot of comments moaning about Killzone not being on there, but guys it does work, looking at it right now. The only game I can’t check right now is LittleBigPlanet as I didn’t have room on my memory card to copy it over. I’ll go and put that on now and see if it works. So far though, not a single one of my digital PSP collection hasn’t worked. They’ve all been playing flawlessly, I see no reason for any of the games not to.

Hey y’all, listen this post is a little misleading. I have an imported vita and have been downloading games all day. The 275 list only includes Vita titles that can be downloaded directly from the Vita. But I have many titles that are not in that 275 (Peace Walker, Jeanne d’arc, Gran Turismo, etc.). All of them can be downloaded on the Ps3 and then transferred to the Vita. The entire digital library will work! So no worries. But so far Media Go does not transfer any titles. This is awesome! And they look great. Again no worries!

@coramdeo7 Good catch man, that would go with my experiences too. I downloaded all my PSP games onto my PS3 and transferred them from there. They all work on the Vita, and I just checked Killzone and Chinatown Wars and they work too. It would make sense that the list is only of games that can be downloaded directly to the Vita itself.

Okay everyone, panic over. All the games work, the list is just wrongly labelled. It should state that these are the games that you can buy and/or download on the Vita only. The rest you need to get via a PC or PS3.